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Kei Honeycomb Dots – new colors

As part of this week’s Quilt Market coverage I’ll be showing one Japanese fabric company each day. Let’s start with Yuwa and Kei. I’m not sure if Kei is a brand belonging to Yuwa (or vice versa), or if they are two companies with the same distributor, but their fabrics were all in one booth together. These are things I don’t think to ask until it’s too late!

A thing you should know about most of the Japanese fabrics you see this week: Each print comes in several colorways, but for the sake of time I tended to only take one picture. I’m also not sure whether they’re current or future offerings. I know, I’m no help!

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I’m a huge Yuwa fan … I miss living in NYC and having access to so many of their wonderful prints at Purl Patchwork! Their cottons have an amazing handfeel I love the honeycomb dots — who doesn’t?!? — and it looks like they’re doing some lovely vintage + feedsack repros.

I’m obsessed with the Kei Honeycomb (and use it for everything!) but it’s getting harder and harder to find- any idea where the new colorways will be available? Purl hasn’t had any of this stuff (in colors other than brown) for months and months now…

I think that possibly Yuwa recently purchased Kei fabrics. I visited the Kei shop in Osaka several years ago and they carried no Yuwa, but now they seem to show up together in collections.
Yuwa produces all of Suzuko Koseki’s fabrics, but they are almost impossible to find in the U.S. and I don’t see any in your post. Might you recall seeing any at the Yuwa booth for sale to U.S. fabric shops?
I am lucky that my daughter lives in Japan so I get to visit regularly. Occasionally she will hunt something down and send it to me, but it would be wonderful to have a source here in the states for these wonderful lines.